Papers & Presentations

Dr. Neil Bishop, Department
of French and Spanish, presented a paper titled Pluralisme et
polysémicité des pays hébertiens [Pluralism
and Polysemicity of Countries and Regions in the Works of Anne
Hébert] in Quebec City May 5, at a conference titled Les
Lieux hébertiens, part of the annual congress of the
Association francophone pour le savoir, an international
Francophone academic organization. The conference Les lieux
hébertiens was organized by the Centre Anne-Hébert,
based at the Université de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, Quebec)
and involved presenters from Quebec, other Canadian provinces,
Europe, the United States and South America.

Dr. Steven M. Carr,
Biology, gave an invited seminar at the Oceanology Institute of the
Polish Academy of Science, Sopot, on April 28, 2008. His
presentation, Phylogeographic Genomics of Atlantic Cod: Pochodzenie
“Babci Dorsz” i jej córek [Origins of
“Granny Cod” and her daughters], explores the
alternative hypotheses of a western and eastern origin of codfish,
and a new biotechnology for the investigation of fisheries species
of mutual interest to Canadian and Poles. Dr. Carr is collaborating
with Polish scientists to examine the genomics of cod in the Baltic
Sea and eastern Atlantic.

Dr. Dale Kirby, Faculty of
Education, presented a paper titled Higher Education in Canada: New
Millennium, New Students, New Directions at the 5th Global
Conference on the Idea of Education which took place in Budapest,
Hungary, May 8-10, 2008.